Sunday is Valentine’s Day, the season of love. I remember the first time Kenny said, “I love you, Honey.” It was the end of our last Saturday night date before he began a four-year hitch in the navy.
I was flabbergasted. It took me a few seconds to respond, “I love you, too, and I’ll wait for you.”
The next day, love songs playing on the radio seemed meant just for us, especially Nat ‘King’ Cole’s “Too Young.” My boyfriend was eighteen and I was sixteen.
Music reflects feelings and stirs memories. In 1957, Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas” described my loneliness with Ken in the navy. I was working in the office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Rockford. During our morning and afternoon breaks at the Cumming’s Coffee Shop, I took advantage of 3 plays for a quarter to hear the song on their jukebox over and over. I was probably driving my four co-workers nuts, but I didn’t care.
For our first dance in the Grange Hall after our church wedding, April 17, 1959, the Bel Air Ranch Boys played “I Love You Truly” while their leader, John Pela, crooned into the microphone.
When we celebrated our Golden Anniversary in 2009 with an open house at the Legion Hall, our friend, Roger, strummed Anne Murray’s hit recording “Could I Have This Dance (for the rest of my life)” for our solo dance.
Later, Roger played “our song,” Johnny Horton’s “The Battle of New Orleans.” Those lyrics about the War of 1812 aren’t romantic, but the memories they evoked made Ken and me smile. That recording had saturated the air waves while we were honeymooning in the Big Easy. It also reminded us of our conflicts through the years that seemed important at the time, but now were forgotten.
What are your favorite love songs?
The only love song that comes to me is: “Everybody loves somebody sometimes.” Tonight I am tired so maybe I will do better tomorrow.
It’s good to love and be loved.
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